Tampa Police Department

If you work for TPD, here's what brokers know about you

Run a scan on any Tampa PD officer. Same things show up: full name. Current address. Prior addresses back to academy. Spouse, parents, kids' approximate ages. Vehicle. The Hillsborough County Property Appraiser record showing what you paid for the house.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. The Hillsborough County Property Appraiser publishes detailed online property records — owner name, mailing address, parcel data, ownership history — and the brokers scrape it directly. Cluster patterns of officers in Brandon, Riverview, FishHawk, Valrico, Lutz, Wesley Chapel, Land O' Lakes, and across the bridges in Pinellas and Pasco are visible from a zip-code search inside seconds.

What Florida law does for you

Florida Statute §119.071(4)(d) exempts the home address, telephone, date of birth, photographs, and the names and locations of children for active and former sworn law enforcement, firefighters, judges, prosecutors, and a long list of other public servants. File the written request with each agency holding your records and those fields become confidential.

The Hillsborough County Property Appraiser honors a separate redaction request under §119.071. File with the appraiser's office to redact your home address from the public property record. Most TPD officers miss this step. Same lever applies if you live in Pasco or Pinellas — file with each appraiser separately.

Florida's Marsy's Law was used in some cases to shield officer names when an officer was a victim of a crime. The Florida Supreme Court in 2023 ruled the constitutional victim-rights provision does not categorically shield the names of officers acting in the line of duty — narrowing how it applies. The redaction protections under §119.071 still stand on their own.

What still leaks

Three sources stay open for a TPD officer:

1. Property Appraiser records before redaction. Anything published before you filed the §119.071 request was already scraped. Re-running broker opt-outs after the redaction is critical.
2. Court records. Hillsborough County Clerk of Courts publishes detailed dockets online. Civil filings, divorce, traffic — addresses appear unless redacted at filing time.
3. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest don't honor Florida law. They source from out-of-state aggregators.

Why the family angle matters here

Tampa PD officers spread across Hillsborough and into the surrounding counties, concentrating in the same suburban pockets year after year. A spouse's workplace, a kid's school in FishHawk or Wesley Chapel, a parent's address in the same neighborhood — all reachable from a single Spokeo profile in five minutes.

The Florida pattern of including officer names in news coverage of incidents makes this worse — same dynamic that hits Miami-Dade and Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Every named-in-the-news officer is a name that lands on a broker page within hours.

The family runs through the same removal queue as the officer.

What we do for TPD members

We sweep all 200+ people-search sites we track, plus a re-check after any Hillsborough, Pasco, or Pinellas Property Appraiser update because that's the fastest re-list path in Florida. Re-listings handled — we re-check every two weeks and refile inside 24 hours when you reappear.

If your district or the Tampa Police Benevolent Association wants to offer this as a member benefit, reach out. We work with locals already.